Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millions as Ed Murrow's cigarette or Arthur Godfrey's tea bag. Clamped in a vise of earphones, the eyes roll heavenward and squeeze shut, the brow sweats and furrows, the teeth gnaw at the lower lip. But the weekly torment of concentration always ends in triumph for Charles Lincoln Van Doren, 30, who has already won $122,000-more than any other quiz contestant in history-and is still going strong on NBC's Twenty One (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T.). Van Doren. a Columbia University English instructor who inherits the brilliance of the literary Van Doren...
...varsity swimming team faces Cornell tonight at the I.A.B. pool at 8 p.m. in what should prove to be another easy triumph for the undefeated Crimson. As varsity coach Harold Ulen commented last night, "They may give us a little trouble in a few spots, but I think we're a better team...
...chief legislative lieutenant, ex-Paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen, vol unteered for service in Algeria. When Poujade refused to back France's assault on Suez, Le Pen threatened to return when his service was over and rally 19 other dissatisfied Poujadists into a new party. Poujade needed a triumph if he was to keep the leadership of his tattered forces...
Youssef's government the bloodless collapse of Addi was a triumph. To the people of Morocco it seemed that the new order was finally taming the wild men of the Atlas Mountains...
...exciting musical comedies, as well as two ballets. Candide, Bernstein's latest Broadway show, is about to go under, after a stay of two months, because of a heavy-handed collaboration in the book department between Voltaire and Lillian Hellman (TIME, Dec. 10), but its witty score remains a triumph ? it is both melodious and satirical in a manner rarely surpassed since Offenbach...